Product Compare
AMD Radeon Pro 580X vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Mar 2019 | Dec 2010 |
| Generation | Radeon Pro Mac | Northern Islands |
| Type | Mobile | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 1100 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 1200 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1710 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 8GB | 2GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 256bit |
| Bandwidth | 218.9GB/s | 176.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 36 | 24 |
| Shading Units | 2304 | 1536 |
| TMUs | 144 | 96 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 8 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 2 MB | 512 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 38.40 GPixel/s | 28.16 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 172.8 GTexel/s | 84.48 GTexel/s |
| FP16 (half) | 5.530 TFLOPS | |
| FP32 (float) | 5.530 TFLOPS | 2.703 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 345.6 GFLOPS | 675.8 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Ellesmere | Cayman |
| GPU Variant | Ellesmere XTA(216-0886220) | Cayman XT(215-0807007) |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | TeraScale 3 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | TSMC |
| Process Size | 14 nm | 40 nm |
| Transistors | 5.7 billion | 2.64 billion |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 389 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 185W | 250W |
| Outputs | 2x HDMI 2.0b | 2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | None | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (12_0) | 11.2 (11_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 6.4 | 5.0 |